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Newspapers Acquire HomeGain Real Estate Vertical
Newspapers Acquire HomeGain Real Estate VerticalClassified Ventures, a newspaper partnership that includes KRD, Gannett, The Washington Post Co., Belo Interactive and the Tribune Co., has announced the acquisition of HomeGain, a top real estate vertical. Real estate is among the fastest growing of the online classifieds segments according to ...

Identity Theft - Scarier than Click Fraud
Identity Theft - Scarier than Click FraudMany search industry observers see click fraud as the number one threat to the growth of the Internet economy. An even greater threat has emerged one that not only places the entire infrastructure of the Internet at risk, it also threatens non-Net users. Identity ...

Resource Issues and Googles Growth?
Resource Issues and Googles Growth?I was chatting with this awesome guy known as Gary Price, you know he is the news editor at Search Engine Watch. We were talking about all the cool things Google releases (and Yahoo and especially Ask Jeeves) but one thing we noticed was that Google ...

RSS: Show Me the Money!
RSS: Show Me the Money!A new investor group has announced they have created a $100 million USD fund geared towards developing services that utilise RSS. The fund will focus on news aggregation, blogs, and new classes of search engines. It will also look at RSS applications that aggregate data in ...

Ask Jeeves and Bloglines : SearchViews Interview of Mark Fletcher
Ask Jeeves and Bloglines : SearchViews Interview of Mark FletcherSearchViews has a nice 5 question interview with Mark Fletcher of Bloglines. If you happen to live on another planet and don`t follow search or blog oriented news much, Bloglines is a blog feed aggregator, subscription service, and blog news search ...

xMax Wireless Broadband to Bring Cost Effective WiFi Internet
xMax Wireless Broadband to Bring Cost Effective WiFi Internet Speaking of wireless Internet, several sources are reporting that Joe Bobier and xG Technology have developed a new form of wifi Broadband called xMax. xG claims that xMax will enable broadband Internet services for so called "on-the-go" wireless devices or hook-up ...

Yahoo Japan Offers Mobile Yahoo Shopping
Yahoo Japan Offers Mobile Yahoo ShoppingI lived in Japan three years ago and am planning on moving back this summer. Besides all of the cultural comparisons, Anime, excellent rail system and population density, one thing that defines modern Japanese lifestyle is mobility. Japanese technology focuses on the concept of ease ...

Become.com Launches News Search Engine
Become.com Launches News Search EngineBecome.com, a search engine that helps people find product reviews and relevant buying information, today announced the launch of "News Search," a feature designed to provide searchers with breaking news articles relevant to their shopping needs. If you recognize Become.com`s name, it`s probably because you`ve seen ...

Google Devaluing Web Directories?
Google Devaluing Web Directories?Search Engine Watch Forums Moderator, DaveN, feels that Google is targeting directories, by that he means, devaluing the links from directories. He bases this statement on the large amount of recent data he collected. For those not familiar with DaveN, he is someone who might be referred ...

Google?s ?Good Writing?Content Filter
Google`s "Good Writing" Content FilterThe web pages actually at the top of Google have only one thing clearly in common: good writing. The usual SEO sacred cows and bugbears, such as PageRank, frames, and JavaScript, are less important, if they even matter at all.I was recently struck by the fact ...

Official Google Toolbar Finally Coming to Firefox
Official Google Toolbar Finally Coming to FirefoxThe official Google Toolbar is finally coming to Firefox (my browser of choice) around July 7th : Hey Googlebar folks, long time no talk. I thought I’d drop you a note to give a heads up on something Google will be releasing next week: ...

Yahoo Quietly Launches Jobs Search Engine
Yahoo Quietly Launches Jobs Search EngineLooks like Yahoo has been working under the radar on a jobs search engine. (via Joel Cheesman) In addition to providing job listings from organizations which have paid to have their listings posted on the Yahoo HotJobs web site, Yahoo is now including job listings ...

MSN Search Development Team SEOChat Q&A Service
MSN Search Development Team SEOChat Q&A ServiceBeyond Google and Yahoo, MSN Search is the third most popular search engine and is even destined to grow with a new search technology and users from Internet Explorer searching on MSN Search by browser default. Randfish at SEO Chat has set up a ...

Duplicate Content Penalty - How to Lose Google Ranking Fast
Duplicate Content Penalty - How to Lose Google Ranking FastDuplicate content penalty. Ever heard of it? This penalty is applied by Google and possibly other search engines when content found on your website is largely the same as what is found elsewhere on your site or on other websites across ...

Report Google AdSense Spam &Click Fraud
Report Google AdSense Spam & Click FraudIn the past, we wrote an entry named GoogleGuy Wants AdSense Spam Sites Out. Some of the AdSense spam, scraper sites, click fraud and so on were out of hand. Jenstar at WebmasterWorld posted a thread named Reporting click fraud to Google AdSense, which ...

Bittorrent Next RIAA Target After Grokster and P2P
Bittorrent Next RIAA Target After Grokster and P2PUS based Organizations like RIAA and MPAA are quite ecstatic about the victory in the supreme court in the case between MGM and Grokster. The courts ruled that the companies developing the p2p applications can be sued for the actions taken by their ...

Instant Messenger Attacks on the Rise
Instant Messenger Attacks on the RiseA research study released by security firm IMLogic says that the hack attempts through the popular instant messengers is growing rapidly. The hackers and writers of malicious code for security breach are increasingly recognizing the popularity of this medium of getting into computers and are ...

Ask Jeeves Crawling Too Much
Ask Jeeves Crawling Too MuchAlmost all Webmasters have experienced the Teoma Crawler that crawls too much. What I mean by too much, is that the bandwidth usage of Ask Jeeves sometimes can spike uncontrollably. There are threads all over the place about this. The most recent thread I found is ...

Yahoo! Adds Metasearch to HotJobs
Yahoo! Adds Metasearch to HotJobsNot wanting to be “disintermediated� by Oodle, SimplyHired, WorkZoo, Indeed and other existing and potential classifieds aggregators, Yahoo!—as reported on several sites—has developed its own metasearch for jobs. As the copy on the site suggests, and notwithstanding all the rhetoric about vertical search, consumers fundamentally don’t ...

Flickr Testing Both Google AdSense and Yahoo Contextual Ads
Flickr Testing Both Google AdSense and Yahoo Contextual AdsYahoo is testing both Google AdSense ads and Yahoo Search Marketing Contextual Ads on Flickr to possibly determine and compare the revenue generated by each contextual advertising network as part of Yahoo Search Marketing`s plans to unveil their own Yahoo Publisher`s advertising. ...

Yahoo Mobile?s SMS Text Message Search
Yahoo Mobile`s SMS Text Message SearchYahoo has launched an SMS Search service which lets mobile users perform Yahoo searches via text messaging. Yahoo has also expanded its mobile web search to function with WAP browsers. The two Yahoo services are available to mobile users across the United States. Both Yahoo ...

Google Invests In Broadband Power Line (BPL) Company
Google Invests In Broadband Power Line CompanyGoogle, Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Hearst Corp. are investing about $100 million in Current Communications Group which is a Maryland based company that offers broadband connections over electricity lines. Current Communications uses a technology that sends Internet signals over regular power lines. Broadband ...

London Bomb Blast Heard Across Internet
London Bomb Blast Heard Across InternetToday`s terror attacks on the London mass transit system were not only a sucker-punch to a city which was jumping with Olympic joy 12 hours ago and another stain brought upon the world by radical terrorists, but also an interesting study of the spreading of ...

FyberSearch Revamps XML Search Engine FeedPlex
FyberSearch Revamps XML Search Engine FeedPlexFyberSearch has added 11 advanced features to the XML search engine FeedPlex that it acquired last year and re-launched this spring. FeedPlex is a search engine for Internet users who are interested in finding XML and RSS files located on blogs and other websites. FeedPlex`s ...

Inside Google Firefox Extensions
Inside Google Firefox ExtensionsWith the release of several Firefox extensions by Google - we can take a look at how Google officially implements PageRank queries.Firefox extensions are packaged files. Download the extension file and unzip it, you’ll notice there are several directories. The location of source files will vary from ...

Yahoo! Adds Maps to Real Estate
Yahoo! Adds Maps to Real EstateThe folks at Yahoo! notified me yesterday that they had added the ability to map rental listings to their real estate site. Here’s an example for Oakland, CA.As we’ve written in the past, mapping is a highly valuable addition to real estate listings. In this ...

SuperPages Upgrades Web Site
SuperPages Upgrades Web SiteVerizon SuperPages today announced the relaunch of its site. The new site is better integrated and more user-friendly than the previous version.SuperPages has been impressive in its willingness to embrance the Internet and performance-based marketing for SMEs in particular. (The company told us that it’s adding roughly ...

Is Google Site Search Professional?
Is Google Site Search Professional?Google Site Search is a quick and easy way to provide a search feature for your Web visitors. I use it on this site but I tend to opt for the built in search feature.Why? Well, the built in feature tends to look more part of ...

Google Experimenting with More Site Results
Google Experimenting with More Site ResultsA member at Search Engine Watch forum discovered a new test Google is trying out. There is no official name for it yet, but we can nickname it "More Site Results". Basically, you can see from the picture below, that Google is embedding more site ...

Mobile Getting .mobi Domain As Popularity Grows
Mobile Getting .mobi Domain As Popularity GrowsAs marketers are steadily moving into the mobile market and more and more sites are being built specifically for cellular phones and mobile devices, ICANN is approving new domain extensions for mobile device sites. MarketingVox reports : Websites designed specifically for mobile phones will ...

Google Adsense Layout Tips for Maximum Clicks
Google Adsense Layout Tips for Maximum ClicksWWWCoder shows you how to better optimize Google Adsense to make more money from your web site in Optimizing Adsense For Better Performance and More Money! Positioning: You need to add your Adsense links right in the heart of your template or right in ...

Jobster Acquires WorkZoo Job Search Engine
Jobster Acquires WorkZoo Job Search EngineJobster Inc. today announced it acquired WorkZoo, Inc., a leading vertical search engine that enables job-seekers to search major job boards via one search engine. WorkZoo receives more than 600,000 unique searches and averages 5 million page views per month (according to Workzoo). ...

Remove the butterfly image from MSN Desktop Search Taskbar
Remove the butterfly image from MSN Desktop Search TaskbarWhen MSN Desktop Search sits on the Taskbar, there`s one niggling annoyance that won`t go away. The butterfly image (which Microsoft insiders call a jellybean because it`s shaped like one) takes up precious Taskbar space, as does the small arrow to the ...

Baidu.com Ready for IPO
Baidu.com Ready for IPOShak says Chinese search engine Baidu is getting ready to go public. Google owns 4% and may want the rest of the company, although the WebmasterWorld thread points to Baidu in a rather negative light. Interesting to get a glimpse of how search users around the globe ...

Microsoft Clears Air on Claria in Anti-Spyware Application
Microsoft Clears Air on Claria in Anti-Spyware ApplicationMicrosoft has a weird problem at its hand. Rumors on one hand claims that the company is seriously considering to acquire the Claria company which specializes in displaying advertisement as per the surfing habits of a user and is mostly known for their ...

Yahoo Desktop Search Update Supports Mozilla Thunderbird Mail
Yahoo Desktop Search Update Supports Mozilla Thunderbird MailYahoo updated Yahoo! Desktop Search today to provide support for Thunderbird, the Mozilla open-source mail client. Thunderbird users on Windows can now use Yahoo! Desktop Search (Y!DS) to search and find email and email attachments.Duke Fan, Sr Product Manager, Search Client Team, posted ...

Ask Jeeves Search Advertising Network To Compete with Google?
Ask Jeeves Search Advertising Network To Compete with Google?Yesterday there was a very interesting AP (Michael Liedtke) interview with IAC’s Barry Diller. From the interview: Diller ultimately wants to transform Ask.com from a second-tier search engine to a serious threat to Google. He is mulling the possibility of breaking away ...

Andy Beal Resigns from WebSourced
Andy Beal Resigns from WebSourcedAndy Beal has parted ways with WebSourced over differences posts Danny Sullivan on the Search Engine Watch blog. According to Danny`s post, "Andy Beal of Search Engine Lowdown has announced he`s left his day job -- vice president of search marketing for WebSourced -- due to ...

Wayback Machine Sued for Copyright Infringement
Wayback Machine Sued for Copyright InfringementWayback Machine is used so often by many of us for many reasons. Want to see the first RustyBrick Web site, use the wayback machine. But it is also used as a legal tool "to turn up old Web pages" that can be used in ...

MSN Shopping BETA Search Engine Launches
MSN Shopping BETA Search Engine LaunchesMSN Shopping BETA launched today as an interesting addition to the MSN Search family and direct competitor to Yahoo Shopping, Froogle, Shopping.com and others. According to Brian Smith at ComparisonEngines.com, MSN Shopping BETA has increased the number of stores by 60x, the number of items ...

Yahoo Video Search Indexing Flash Movies and Games
Yahoo Video Search Indexing Flash Movies and GamesIf you`re a video search addict like I am, you`ll be happy to find out that Yahoo has added Macromedia Flash animation into its Yahoo Video Search index. Flash animation can be fun to search for in some instances, like the South Park-esque ...

Google PageRank Update Analysis
Google PageRank Update AnalysisFor those of you not yet aware, Google is currently updating the PageRank they are displaying in their toolbar. Each update causes a stir among the SEO community and webmasters trying to get their websites to the top of the Google Rankings.What Is PageRank? Without getting into ...

Google Raising AdWords Prices for Less Relevant Ads
Google Raising AdWords Prices for Less Relevant AdsIn another way to reap the online advertisers of more dollars and keep escalating click prices beyond initial Google estimates and realistic metrics (please do not tell me I`m the only one who`s noticed a huge discrepancy between Google campaign impression and mass ...

Yahoo!?s New UC Berkeley Research Lab
Yahoo!`s New UC Berkeley Research LabYahoo! is to go into a partnership with the UC Berkeley for plans to open up a research lab near the university to get access to the ideas and concepts of the students studying and researching there. Yahoo! is looking forward to improving their search ...

Small Pay Per Click Search Engines Are Worthless
Small Pay Per Click Search Engines Are WorthlessSmaller search networks can not compete with the big boys in building advertisers, users, and monetizing traffic. Hence they have to rely on gimicks and low quality publishing partners to get any exposure. Joe Holcomb, a former executive at BlowSearch, was recently canned: ...

Meta Social Networking Coming Soon
Meta Social Networking Coming SoonOne of the points former Tribe CEO Mark Pincus made in his keynote address at Interactive Local Media ‘04 was that there were too many silos in local and across the Internet—“disconnected marketplaces,� he called them. Pincus argued for interoperability and open standards to allow users ...

New Example of the Google Sandbox
New Example of the Google SandboxRandfish over at SEO Chat posted a thread named SEOmoz.org - In Google`s Sandbox - Hilarity Ensues! In that thread he describes how his SEOmoz.org blog has been sandboxed after moving it from socengine.com/seo to seomoz.org.Randfish describes that for searches he used to rank well ...

News Corp/Fox Buying MySpace
News Corp/Fox Buying MySpaceIn the emerging tradition of “old media� buying “new media,� Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp announced today that it was acquiring Intermix Media, Inc., which owns the wildly popular MySpace.com (the new “it� site for the youth demographic). According to comScore, MySpace ranks at number 30 in overall ...

Interview with Yahoo Shopping V.P. Rob Solomon
Interview with Yahoo Shopping V.P. Rob SolomonBrain Smith has hit a great niche target with his blog ComparisonEngines.com where he reports on news and conducts interviews with comparison based shopping search engines. Recently, Brian interviewed Rob Solomon, General Manager and Vice President of Yahoo! Shopping at Yahoo`s Sunnyvale campus to ...

Firefox Site Hacked With Intention to Spam
Firefox Site Hacked With Intention to SpamRecently the Mozilla Firefox promotional site, SpreadFirefox.com, was hacked by someone exploiting a vulnerability in the CMS package used by the site. Apparently the intention of the hackers was not only to shame SpreadFirefox.com, but also to (ahem...) Spam! SpreafFirefox.com site manager Asa Dotzler ...

Yahoo Health Blogs Launched
Yahoo Health Blogs LaunchedYahoo! as launched a range of interesting health blogs, covering topics including yoga, nutrition, diabetes, depression, cholesterol, breast cancer and asthma. The blogs are written by experts in their field, and include an RSS feed, comments (although Yahoo! registration is required) and permalink options, although the branding ...

Microsoft Sues Google On Kai-Fu Lee Hiring
Microsoft Sues Google On Kai-Fu Lee HiringGoogle announced this week that they are planning to open up a research lab in China and have hired Dr. Kai-Fu Lee, former Corporate V.P. at Microsoft. Well, as you may know, there is one hot rivalry going on between Google and Microsoft ...

Microsoft &Google Take it to the Courts
Microsoft & Google Take it to the CourtsIf you haven`t heard, Google to Open Research and Development Center in China, where Google "Hires Dr. Kai-Fu Lee as Vice President, Engineering and President of Google China." The issue is, where he is coming from and his non-compete : Dr. Lee, who ...

Search Engine Journal Update - An Exciting Month
Search Engine Journal Update - An Exciting MonthDue to numerous happenings at Search Engine Journal over the past month I felt the need to address some of the things going on behind the scenes. July has been a challenge for the Journal, we started off the month being defaced, then ...

Google Improves AdWords System
Google Improves AdWords SystemGoogle recently introduced two new changes to their AdWords system. (via Inside Adwords) Both these changes will help advertisers improve their campaigns - I like the lower minimum ad bid corresponding to higher quality.Simplified Keyword States: Keywords will be placed in to one of two states – ...

New Google Groups Alert
New Google Groups AlertGoogle added a new feature to the Google Alerts program - Google Groups Alerts. Now you can monitor the top search results for Google Groups by keywords.Any new articles posted that match your criteria will be emailed to you, just like Google News alerts. The ideal candidates ...

Will Blinkx Get Bought?
Will Blinkx Get Bought?I got a press call today about Blinkx’s newly announced RSS video/multimedia feed. That quickly led to a broader discussion about video search and the online advertising marketplace.Blinkx is an impressive upstart that has, through scrappy innovation, been able to put itself in contention with the likes ...

Yahoo Updates Search Engine Index
Yahoo Updates Search Engine IndexYesterday Tim Mayer announced the newest Yahoo "Weather Report" on their newest search engine index update. The changes to the index are mot instant and will be occuring iver the next three weeks. Tim writes on the Yahoo Search Blog (look Jeremy, a link!) "The changes ...

PubSub Aggregates Customized Baseball News from Blogs
PubSub Aggregates Customized Baseball News from BlogsPubSub.com yesterday announced the launch of PubSub Baseball, a collection of free, pre-built subscriptions that provide customized delivery of baseball content from the blogs and syndicated sites. PubSub’s prospective search technology instantly notifies users as soon as the search terms they have subscribed to ...

Brazilians Used Google?s Orkut to Manage Drug Ring
Brazilians Used Google`s Orkut to Manage Drug RingSocial networking has been on the verge of taking off for about a year now, and Google`s social networking system Orkut has been red hot in Brazil since its launch. However, the network has run into some controversy as of recently with a ...

Yahoo! Vertical-Horizontal Integration
Yahoo! Vertical-Horizontal IntegrationLet’s put aside Yahoo!’s FUSE (Find, Use, Share, and Expand) strategy for the moment and look at what the company is doing with vertical and horizontal search (horizontal search being, well, search). Yahoo! recently launched a specialized Travel site to go along with its other vertical sites and ...

Tracking Advertising Performance
Tracking Advertising PerformanceAn article that has received a good deal of attention, from yesterday’s NY Times, is “How Effective Is This Ad, in Real Numbers? Beats Me.� The piece cites marketers’ inability to determine which of their ads/campaigns are actually effective and delivering the best ROI.Yesterday I participated in a ...

Microsoft Brands Longhorn As Windows Vista
Microsoft Brands Longhorn As Windows VistaMicrosoft has announced that it will be launching its long awaited Longhorn operating system as Windows Vista - not to be confused with AltaVista. Windows Vista will be the next large offering from Microsoft, which has burried the Longhorn name for an identity which is ...

Google Codejam 2005
Google Codejam 2005Hey coders, registration is now open for Google Code Jam 2005 : "Google`s annual online coding competition consisting of a series of problem-solving challenges that invite participants to select a programming language and use their programming skills to code solutions to the problems." Programmers interested in competing can ...

Firefox 1.5 Coming This Summer
Firefox 1.5 Coming This SummerMozilla has announced that Firefox 1.1 will not be released as planned and will be spun into the new Firefox 1.5 which is planned for release this August. According to MozillaZine "The Firefox Roadmap was updated on Wednesday by lead engineer Ben Goodger. It changed the ...

Grand Theft Auto, Porn and Free Publicity
Grand Theft Auto, Porn and Free PublicityRecent video game controversies heating up around the US Senate have SEOBook`s Aaron Wall thinking outloud about how much the controversy around Grand Theft Auto San Andreas and the porn hacks for it have helped to push the video game over the top when ...

Jumping Into the Search Engine Optimization Game
Jumping Into the Search Engine Optimization GameThe SEM & SEO industry is flourishing. New SEO companies spring up each day. So what stops anyone from starting an SEO company? Well, nothing really. Since the industry is so unknown to the public, most people still don`t understand what SEO really is, ...

Google Sitemap For Idiots
Google Sitemap For IdiotsI don’t mind admitting that every time some new fangled idea or piece of technology arrives online, I have a small fit and wonder how long it’s going to take me to understand what it is, what it’s for and whether I need to use it to ...

MSN RSS Search Engine Launching Soon?
MSN RSS Search Engine Launching Soon?There are some rumors flying around the blogosphere that MSN will be launching an RSS search engine anyday now to add to their search engine offerings. Nick at ThreadWatch picked up on a Niall Kennedy blog posting about Microsoft crawling RSS feeds at a high ...

Google Creating a Virtual Sales Force?
Google Creating a Virtual Sales Force?Here’s a flash/video presentation about Google’s AdSense that appeared on a blog I was reading. Check out the video. It’s not specifically directed to SMEs. But imagine an online sales presentation that was; it would be much more effective than this.More than 50% of SMEs ...

Google Offering RSS Aggregation
Google Offering RSS AggregationGoogle is now offering RSS aggregation that supports any site using its Google Personalized Home Page service. Still a very basic service in terms of what can be done, but it will compete directly with Yahoo! News with a similar layout and style.A lot of you have ...

Microsoft Virtual Earth Launches
Microsoft Virtual Earth LaunchesMSN’s Answer to Google and Yahoo!’s dynamic Web-based mapping tools, Virtual Earth, went live this morning. Needless to say it works better with IE than Firefox (the browser I typically use). It doesn’t have the “wow factor” of Google Earth, which is a client-side application—that’s really an ...

Yahoo Acquisition Opens Door for Yahoo Widgets
Yahoo Acquisition Opens Door for Yahoo WidgetsOver the past year the major search engines, Google and Yahoo, have made acquisitions to expand their offerings and technological horizons. Yahoo added to its big name acqusitions of Overture, Altavista, Flickr, Blo.gs, and DialPad with the takeover of a widget company yesterday. Yahoo`s ...

Yahoo to Power Boeing In Flight Web Search
Yahoo to Power Boeing In Flight Web SearchYahoo has come to save the sanity of all business flyers and long distance travelers with a new deal struck between Yahoo Search Marketing and Boeing to bring relevant and useful Internet services to airline flights. Yahoo! Inc and Connexion by Boeing, today ...

Yahoo! Opens Yahoo 360 to Outside Blogging Sites
Yahoo! Opens Yahoo 360 to Outside Blogging SitesIn what could only be described as either a bold move at interactivity across multiple platforms, or acceptance from Yahoo! that 360 is a failure is a blogging platform, Yahoo! has announced that Yahoo! 360 users can now publish content to their 360 ...

Ask Jeeves and AOL Search Engines Grow in Popularity in 2005
Ask Jeeves and AOL Search Engines Grow in Popularity in 2005Ask Jeeves and AOL`s search volume share rose substancially over the first 6 months of 2005 while Google and Yahoo grew abit slower. Nielsen NetRatings reported that out of Q1 and Q2 search growth for the top five search engines, ...

Yahoo and Motorola Partnership Brings Content and Search To Mobile Users
Yahoo and Motorola Partnership Brings Content and Search To Mobile UsersMotorola Inc. and Yahoo partnered Tuesday and announced that they will be offering Yahoo`s content, mail and search services on Motorola mobile devices. The announcement includes Motorola`s upcoming iRadio product but did not get deeper into any Yahoo Music Search ...

AOL Testing Mobile Search Engine
AOL Testing Mobile Search EngineMarketingVox reports that AOL is testing a mobile search engine which is integrated with its vertical search offerings and will be available for PDA handsets and mobile phones with Internet browsing technology. From Marketing Vox : America Online has begun testing its new AOL Mobile Search ...

Andrew Goodman on Google?s Recently Announced AdWords Change
Andrew Goodman on Google`s Recently Announced AdWords ChangeAndrew writes a 4 page article about the new AdWords system. Smart of him to reinforce his market position by writing an article about it. I also found it interesting that he wrote about his speculations as to why some things at Google ...

Yahoo! Publisher Network Coming Soon?
Yahoo! Publisher Network Coming Soon?There has been some recent buzz at WebmasterWorld that YPN coming very soon. The thread creator used a conference call where Yahoo`s CEO Terry Semel, "apparently said that YPN would be rolled out "very soon.""Nick at ThreadWatch then wrote a thread, Yahoo Publisher Network to Debut ...

Ask Jeeves Rumored to Launch Paid Search Network on August 1st
Ask Jeeves Rumored to Launch Paid Search Network on August 1stAsk Jeeves is rumored to be launching a new Paid Search advertising interface on August 1st which will let advertisers purchase their own targeted search text ads on Ask Jeeves. Currently Ask Jeeves relies on Google AdWords advertising to fill ...

Microsoft Windows Vista Facing Trademark Problems
Microsoft Windows Vista Facing Trademark ProblemsSeems like these days, every new product that launches runs into some kind of problem with trademarks, especially if the product is launched by Microsoft. Last week, Microsoft announced that their long awaited operating system of the future, previously known as Longhorn, will be marketed ...

Google Search Widgets
Google Search WidgetsIn my ongoing fantasy of buying a new Mac, I periodically visit the Apple site. Today I was checking out the widgets page and saw that the Google Maps Widget was the top download. That says two things to me:* Google Maps continues to gain attention and is ...

Technorati Launches Mobile Search
Technorati Launches Mobile SearchTechnorati has launched Technorati Mobile, a special version of the famed blog search facility set up to be easily viewed on mobile phones and handheld computers. The site, which provides similar options to the main Technorati site, could actually end up being more popular amongst bloggers, as ...

Copernic Desktop Search with IE and Firefox Toolbar
Copernic Desktop Search with IE and Firefox ToolbarCopernic has done it again with 1.6 - Now you can search your outlook emails, web history, music and everything else from Firefox browser. Another reason not to use MSN Desktop search toolbar.Firefox is gaining prominence and with CDS 1.6, Copernic developers ...

Changing Venues of Search - Search Going Mobile
Changing Venues of Search - Search Going MobileFor the past few years I have been writing about the immense changes happening in search marketing. These changes are driven by a number of factors but the two that make the biggest difference are technological advances and user adoption. It has been ...

Self Tagging by Ask Jeeves
Self Tagging by Ask JeevesAsk Jeeves just deployed MyJeeves 1.2: Tagging Solution for Virtual Folders but it does not offer the community aspect focus that Yahoo! has done so nicely with MyWeb 2.0.I call asks version, self-tagging, because it doesn`t allow you to view your "communities" tags. For example, about ...

Search Engines and Issues With Session IDs
Search Engines and Issues With Session IDsA HighRanking Forums thread named Cookieless Sessions discusses one of the biggest issues with dynamically driven Web sites - the session id.Including a Session ID in a URL, will cause the search spiders to run around like chickens without their heads. Think of it ...

Google Files Patent for Contextual RSS Ads
Google Files Patent for Contextual RSS AdsI find it a bit funny that Google would file a patent for this, but I find most patents funny. MSGraph, an SEW Member known for posting patent applications, started a thread named Google`s Advertisements in RSS Patent App where he quotes an abstract ...

Oodle Does Google Map Mashups
Oodle Does Google Map MashupsThe classifieds aggregator Oodle announced the integration of Google Maps into its housing category listings. Here are two bedroom Santa Cruz, CA vacation rentals, for example. One of the nice things you can do is drag the map and see the available listings in an adjacent ...

Searching for Quality, Marchex Buys IndustryBrains
Searching for Quality, Marchex Buys IndustryBrainsSeattle-based Marchex, which is the parent of TrafficLeader, the SEM/SEO firm behind several YP (and newspaper) simplified search marketing programs, has announced the roughly $30 million acquisition of IndustryBrains, which operates a vertical/contextual ad network. At the end of April, Marchex acquired most of the ...

My AOL Revamps, Adds Feeds
My AOL Revamps, Adds FeedsI’ve believed for a while that My Yahoo! was a powerful model for personalization. To varying degrees the other major portals/search engines are now pursuing a similar strategy. Google recently added more feeds to its personalized home page. Here’s MSN’s Start.com Now, as part of its ...

IceRocket is Now IceRocket Blog Search, Not BlogScour
IceRocket is Now IceRocket Blog Search, Not BlogScourLast week there were reports in major online news media that IceRocket Search Engine, which is funded in part by Mark Cuban, has rebraded itself as BlogScour. These reports, according to IceRocket, were false and brought about by a bit of confusion. Seems ...

Yahoo Toolbar for Firefox Released
Yahoo Toolbar for Firefox ReleasedIn a bid to get the attention of the growing number of online users moving to the popular alternative browser Mozilla Firefox, Yahoo! has finally released the final of their Yahoo! Toolbar. The add-on to the popular open source web browser first appeared way back in ...

Skype?s VOIP Challenge to Google, Yahoo, MSN
Skype`s VOIP Challenge to Google, Yahoo, MSNSkype was the first VOIP download offering that I ever heard of and over the past year, I`ve become quite loyal to the service. Back in the States, I used Skype for long distance calls as much as for international ones, as having a ...

Yahoo Japan Search, Auctions and Broadband
Yahoo Japan Search, Auctions and BroadbandLiving in Japan again has its perks, especially compared with my first stay in this beautiful country 4 years ago. First off, I understand the language and customs more so than before, although my Japanese still needs years of laboring. Second, I now have the ...

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